[PrototypeStacy]

Okay, so I'm a bit worried about the SM auditions because I want to audition for acting. I've been trying to find some acting advice here and etc, but it seems there are none! And no actors here either. So I'm just wondering ... is there anybody interested in auditioning for acting here? It'd be so great to hear from you guys. I feel so lonely, and clueless about this.

Any advice? What to do to prepare, what SM is looking for specifically (like really dramatic actors or etc.) ?

Any past acting auditioners? Any future ones?

Much appreciated if I could get some help and if the actors here could all help each other!

[BunnieButt]

i totally agree. ive accepted the fact i cant sing.
hopefully someone with more experience than me will swing by. ive never audtioned for ANYTHING

[AhleesOhn<3JJ]

i really want to audition for acting....but then i have to go searching for a script to practice and i dont even know if i can get a ride to the audition so i have no idea. i've asked but no one has ever answered me....hah. so i can't help you either! sorry!! i'll probably just google something =P

[kinly]

Hey guys~

I want to audition for acting too! But I'm having trouble finding monologues in Korean. Do you guys know where to find them? like is there a website somewhere?

~kinly

[teukstrid]

I dont live in the US but if im going to korea I might try out for acting.

I have just graduated a 3 year acting school so I might be able to come with a few tips at least for those of you who are auditioning.

Here are just a few basic advices for acting auditions

1. Prepare a monologe that you are comfortable with. If you cant speak Korean, DONT choose a korean monologe. That will most probably lower your chances.
Of course they would probably prefare a korean monologe, but when they are going to USA and other non-korean countries they have to expect to get some English auditions.
If you speak a language you are comfortable with, you will more easily be able to be in character and be believable.

2. Before going in to the audition room, warm up!! Do voice wamr-ups. Why? Beucase if you dont, then the fear/nervousness might get more to you and your voice can crack.
When acting, your voice and body is your instrument so wamr both up. Also drink water. A dry throat might make it hard for you.

3. When you choose a monologe, the first thing I would suggest that you do is to write a character essay.
Name, Age, Background, Family, Personality, Likes, Dislikes
You might think, but that doesnt say in the text or why do I need that?
WELL XD You have to make up this character yourself to easier adapt to it. If you then wonder "how would I say this line", you can just look at the essay and hopefully get some answers from it.


Yeah okay those 3 advices was just very basic. Cause I dont exactly know what you are looking for.
But if anyone is interested, I am willing to answer to any questions or help out! (I know im not pro or anything but I have been acting for over 10 years so I can comfidently say that I know a thing or two : P ).

[PrototypeStacy]

Omg! Thanks Teukstrid! It's okay that they are basics cause I didn't know them anyway. D:
Oh, I have a question for you though ... do you happen to know if like you would need to bring the script to the judges/etc to show them what you're doing or can you just act it out without giving them a script? Oh yeah, your number 1. said not to do a Korean monologue if you're not Korean. Well, would it help that I understand some and have a good accent? Lol. \=

Kinly and Ahleeson!
I'm having the same trouble as you guys! I tried searching for something, anything and they give me all these weird scripts and oi! If you guys find something, please let me know! THANKS!

[teukstrid]

@PrototypeStacy: I would bring a script just in case. They might not wanna lok at it but that gives them the chance at least.
If you can prenounce Korean and dont feel like its a set-back for you, then off course you can read a korean monolog!! XD As long as it doesnt hinder you^^

[chemical9]

Hey guys~

I want to audition for acting too! But I'm having trouble finding monologues in Korean. Do you guys know where to find them? like is there a website somewhere?

~kinly

I dont know where you can get Korean monologues, but I know where to get English ones. Besides, I think it would be better if you act in a language you're familiar with. ^^

I dont live in the US but if im going to korea I might try out for acting.

3. When you choose a monologe, the first thing I would suggest that you do is to write a character essay.
Name, Age, Background, Family, Personality, Likes, Dislikes
You might think, but that doesnt say in the text or why do I need that?
WELL XD You have to make up this character yourself to easier adapt to it. If you then wonder "how would I say this line", you can just look at the essay and hopefully get some answers from it.
Yeah okay those 3 advices was just very basic. Cause I dont exactly know what you are looking for.
But if anyone is interested, I am willing to answer to any questions or help out! (I know im not pro or anything but I have been acting for over 10 years so I can comfidently say that I know a thing or two : P ).

There's always the Global Audition!
Anyway, I totally agree with number 3.
When you wanna write a "story", make sure you write a "report" of the characters you're doing. Even if you think its not important.
Like a teacher having 2 kids at home would behave differently from an unwed teacher. If you get what I'm trying to say. :]

Omg! Thanks Teukstrid! It's okay that they are basics cause I didn't know them anyway. D:
Oh, I have a question for you though ... do you happen to know if like you would need to bring the script to the judges/etc to show them what you're doing or can you just act it out without giving them a script? Oh yeah, your number 1. said not to do a Korean monologue if you're not Korean. Well, would it help that I understand some and have a good accent? Lol. \=

If you're not fluent, I think its better not to act in Korean. :]
They would understand english anyway.
So it doesn't matter really.
And, I don't think you need to bring a script for the judges.
You can if you want though, I guess.
But one important thing is, MEMORISE YOUR LINES.
Never audition with the script. :]

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Anyway I think a few threads were opened before, but were ignored? I dont know. A thread was opened recently but I guess only one that bothered to reply.

[melodyy]

When choosing a monologue, try to choose one that you can relate to. This makes your performance more realistic and believable, which is what acting is all about. Project. Try to memorise your lines, but if you forget them, paraphrase. Try your best not to show you've messed up, cover it up with improv - that gives bonus brownie points
And when you walk in - be confident! Give them a performance that'll stay in their heads. x]

[hpfreak1]

oh, I auditioned for acting for the SM audition last year x]
But teukstrid here, was very helpful in explaining the acting x]
I needed that advice, too. thanks! x]

Last year, I just did a scene from TVXQ's Banjun drama, "Dangerous Love" with a friend of mine.
I just wrote down what they said and acted it out somehow like they did. I acted in English btw x]

anyways, would it be better to do a monologue, or a duo with a friend?

-edit-
my friend found a script for "Full House" the drama, but it's all in Korean x[

[chemical9]

oh, I auditioned for acting for the SM audition last year x]
But teukstrid here, was very helpful in explaining the acting x]
I needed that advice, too. thanks! x]

Last year, I just did a scene from TVXQ's Banjun drama, "Dangerous Love" with a friend of mine.
I just wrote down what they said and acted it out somehow like they did. I acted in English btw x]

anyways, would it be better to do a monologue, or a duo with a friend?

-edit-
my friend found a script for "Full House" the drama, but it's all in Korean x[

The biggest problem with monologues is, they tend to get boring.
So if you think you can't do a monologue well, then do a duo.
But if you're confident, imo, a monologue would be better.
It wouldn't make much of a difference though.
As long as you can showcase your skills. ^^

[hipopdancer]

ofcourse, the most important, have a monolouge ready!!!!

come up with an original one cuz the ones that have already been said, ex: in films, dramas, etc. everyone knows who has done it best. so it's best to come up with ur own.

im an actress in training

[cin]

I dont live in the US but if im going to korea I might try out for acting.

I have just graduated a 3 year acting school so I might be able to come with a few tips at least for those of you who are auditioning.

Here are just a few basic advices for acting auditions

1. Prepare a monologe that you are comfortable with. If you cant speak Korean, DONT choose a korean monologe. That will most probably lower your chances.
Of course they would probably prefare a korean monologe, but when they are going to USA and other non-korean countries they have to expect to get some English auditions.
If you speak a language you are comfortable with, you will more easily be able to be in character and be believable.

2. Before going in to the audition room, warm up!! Do voice wamr-ups. Why? Beucase if you dont, then the fear/nervousness might get more to you and your voice can crack.
When acting, your voice and body is your instrument so wamr both up. Also drink water. A dry throat might make it hard for you.

3. When you choose a monologe, the first thing I would suggest that you do is to write a character essay.
Name, Age, Background, Family, Personality, Likes, Dislikes
You might think, but that doesnt say in the text or why do I need that?
WELL XD You have to make up this character yourself to easier adapt to it. If you then wonder "how would I say this line", you can just look at the essay and hopefully get some answers from it.
Yeah okay those 3 advices was just very basic. Cause I dont exactly know what you are looking for.
But if anyone is interested, I am willing to answer to any questions or help out! (I know im not pro or anything but I have been acting for over 10 years so I can comfidently say that I know a thing or two : P ).

do you know how long the monologues must be? how many minutes should the monologues take you to act them out?
I'm going to audition for acting/modeling (I'm doubting my height but oh wells).
Anywhoo thanks for the advice!

[chemical9]

Someone PMed me for monologues. So I went to look for some and I thought I'd share it with everyone. :]

HUSH by April De Angelis

Background:
When Jo drowned a year ago she left the house by the sea to her 15-year-old daughter Jo, and her sister Louise. Weekends are spent there repairing the neglect, and DENISE is helping as a temporary cleaner. She is 23, has never settled, is gullible, easily influenced and follows any current trend. She is also kind, lovable and sometimes exasperating. This evening she is overdressed, hoping a man she has met will visit; in the meantime Tony, Louise's husband is on the receiving end of her reminiscing.

Time: The present.
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A long pause.

DENISE: Once I got really pissed. Really pissed at this party and then I got really hungry, really hungry, you know, like you do after drinking and so I devoured a bowl of peanuts. A whole bowl, to myself.

Pause.

And then I vomited the lot back up. I sort of regurgitated them. The thing is, they came out whole. I must have just swallowed them down without any sort of chewing. Later someone remarked that they shot out like bullets. Ping ping. Ping.

Pause.

I was a bit depressed at the time.

Pause.

The reason I'd been depressed as because I'd been working at this sandwich making job. I was living with this bloke and we were making sandwiches in his flat. At first I really threw myself into it. I experimented with fillings, I bought a butter dish. We used to drive round delivering sandwiches to local businesses only quite often we never got any orders. We ate quite a lot of sandwiches on those occasions. That dealt quite a blow to my enthusiasm I can tell you. Not to mention the fact that I wasn't getting the correct balance of amino acids in my diet. And that can lead to personality disorders. Like shoplifting or slimming. Then one day we found a cockroach lying upside down in a giant size tub of margarine. It wasn't me that left the lid off. That was when the infestation started. You can never be alone with an infestation. Soon after that he left me. He walked out leaving rent arrears and twenty-seven kilos of cheddar. I lay in bed weeping for days. I don't know if what we had was love but it did provide light relief from all the buttering. That was before I became a Buddhist. I used to watch the cockroaches basking on the walls. They do say in the event of a nuclear holocaust cockroaches will survive to inherit the earth. They used to crawl around in a superior manner as if they knew they could survive intense heat and I couldn't. Cocky bastards. The thing is, I'd never go through that now. Be used like that. Because now I'm different. Transformed by experience.

Pause.

Sometimes I wonder what happens. What happens to people who can't find enthusiasm for things. The way things are.

Pause.

Of course there's always acupuncture.

^I personally like this one.

VISITING HOUR by Richard Harris

Background:
The episodes in this play take place in a hospital. In this one, subtitled Going Home, Cheryl, a white woman, at a crisis point in her life has grown through her hospital friendship with TRICIA, who is black and a much more whole and successful woman. This is their last conversation as TRICIA is to go home a day early. Cheryl is in bed, TRICIA still in her night-wear with a smart dressing-gown. They have been discussing 'first impressions' and 'pre-judgements' of people and Cheryl has tried to explain that she had never really known a black person before, that she hadn't expected TRICIA to be the sort of person she was. She is groping for words and says 'you just . . .' and TRICIA finishes the sentence for her.

Time: The present.
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TRICIA: Make assumptions. We all do. I certainly do, I'd be a liar if I said otherwise. I see Tracy in the bed opposite scratching her tattoos and moving her mouth as she reads the Sun and, yes, I make assumptions. It's whether we're prepared to break those assumptions down. At least we owe it to each other to try. (She smiles, without humour, and then frowns slightly at the memory.) Something very - strange happened the other night . . . the night you were in the observation ward . . . the entire night staff was black. In they marched, these five black nurses - including a new girl I hadn't seen before - and she came round, this new girl, sort of letting everyone get to know her, and she was trying very hard, saying how much she liked the flowers, how pretty someone's hair looked - you know, trying to make all the right noises . . . and somehow something went wrong. No one was responding, no one was - reaching out to her - and the other black nurses were standing back, watching her and smiling . . . and the more anxious she became, the more they smiled, the more satisfied they were, the more they were enjoying it, and one of them came over to me and sat on my bed and said 'you poor baby darling' and stroked my brow and I knew that in that moment - and maybe just in that moment and for no particular reason - those black nurses hated their white patients and those white women were afraid of those black women, they felt threatened by them. Next day (she shrugs, smiles.) it was like it never happened. (Slight pause.) Most of the women here are like you, they've never come into real contact with a black person and have no way of reading them . . . if they're being funny or ironic or friendly or natural or what . . . and the black person becomes offended because she's trying to communicate, and . . . (She trails off.) I see it all the time but I hoped that here, in hospital, the differences would somehow become blurred. But they aren't. Not really. It's just the same.

MY MOTHER SAID I NEVER SHOULD by Charlotte Keatley

Background:
The play is about four generations of women living this century in London and Manchester. In 1971, 19-year-old JACKIE had an illegitimate baby, Rosie. Her mother, Margaret and father, Ken, bring Rosie up as their own child, but when Margaret dies in 1987 Rosie finds her birth certificate. Here, Rosie has just accused JACKIE of wanting her own life more than she wanted a child.

Setting: The garden of Ken and Margaret's suburban semi, in Rayne's Park, London, early morning, just after Margaret's death.

Time: 1987.
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JACKIE: How dare you! (Goes to hit Rosie but cannot.) You're at the centre of everything I do! (Slight pause.) Mummy treated me as though I'd simply fallen over and cut my knee - picked me up and said you'll be all right now, it won't show much. She wanted to make it all better. (Quiet.) ... She was the one who wanted it kept secret ... I WANTED you, Rosie. (Angry.) For the first time in my life I took care of myself - refused joints, did exercises, went to the clinic. (Pause.) 'It's a girl.' (Smiles irresistibly.) - After you'd gone I tried to lose that memory. (Pause. Effort.) Graham ... your father. (Silence.) He couldn't be there the day you were born, he had to be in Liverpool. He was married. (Emphatic.) He loved me, he loved you, you must believe that! (Pause.) He said he'd leave his wife, but I knew he wouldn't; there were two young children, the youngest was only four ... we'd agreed, separate lives, I wanted to bring you up. He sent money. (Pause.) I took you to Lyme Park one day, I saw them together, across the lake, he was buying them ice creams, his wife was taking a photo. I think they live in Leeds now, I saw his name in the Guardian last year, an article about his photographs ... (Pause.) It was a very cold winter after you were born. There were power cuts. I couldn't keep the room warm; there were no lights in the tower blocks; I knew he had an open fire, it was trendy; so we took a bus to Didsbury, big gardens, pine kitchens, made a change from concrete. I rang the bell. (Stops.) A Punjabi man answered, said he was sorry ... they'd moved. By the time we got back to Moss Side it was dark, the lift wasn't working - (Stops.) That was the night I phoned Mummy. (Difficult.) Asked her. (Pause.) I tried! I couldn't do it, Rosie. (Pause.) It doesn't matter how much you succeed afterwards, if you've failed once. (Pause.) After you'd gone ... I kept waking in the night to feed you ... A week ... in the flat ... Then I went back to art school. Sandra and Hugh thought I was inhuman. I remember the books hat came out that winter - how to succeed as a single working mother - fairytales! (Pause.) Sandra and Hugh have a family now. Quite a few of my friends do. (Pause.) I could give you everything now. Rosie? ...

Here's one for younger people. :]

THE WILD DUCK by Henrik Ibsen.

Background:
HEDWIG is a young teenager. Her father has just discovered that HEDWIG is not, in fact, his daughter. His love for HEDWIG and the wild duck that they nurture immediately turns to hate.
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HEDWIG: Daddy! Daddy! Don't go away from me. He'll never come back to us again. I think I'm going to die of all this. What have I done to him? Mother, why doesn't Daddy want to see me any more? I think I know what it is. Perhaps I'm not Daddy's real child. And now perhaps he has found it out. I've read about that sort of thing. But I think he might be just as fond of me for all that. Almost more. The wild duck was sent us as a present too, and I'm tremendously fond of that, just the same. The poor wild duck! He can't bear to look at that any more, either. Just think he wanted to wring its neck. I say a prayer for the wild duck every night and ask that it shall be protected from death and everything bad. I taught myself to say my prayers because there was a time when Daddy was ill and had leeches on his neck and said he was lying at death's door. So I said a prayer for him when I'd gone to bed. And I've gone on with it ever since. I thought I'd better put in the wild duck too, because she was so delicate at first. And now you say I should sacrifice the wild duck to prove my love for Daddy. I will try it. I will ask Grandfather to shoot the wild duck for me.

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If you need monologues for any specific kind of characters, feel free to ask, I'll try to help :]

[m1ckyy_yoochun]

I've auditioned for the Global audition last year with acting. I just acted out a scene from this korean drama, it was a crying scene. I think you should pick a scene that shows your talent and makes them think, wow they can act.! you know^^

You could always find the scripts for KBS Korean Dramas.
Just know the title and make sure it's from KBS. go to

www.kbs.co.kr

and go to the homepage of that drama and when you go to see the videos, they'll have the scripts on the side.
But you can't copy and paste, you have to type everything out.

So for those who are planning on going with a Korean drama, I suggest you go with a KBS drama^^

[w4termelon]

just wondering, do u have to hav the monologue memorized? and from the look of prev posts with monologue, theyre SOOOO long T_T

[bitter SOOweet]

when i auditioned last year i signed up for singing and acting but they totally didn't even give me a chance for the acting part
and then my friend signed up to audition to act but they kinda looked at her strange and then she felt really weird so gave up half way

ierno they seem to be very singing audition based?

oh and for the audition
u just act out a scene
... well thats what they told us to do last year *shrugs*


btw this was for the global audition stuff thing where they go around to major cities and all yeahh? haha yeah

[PrototypeStacy]

wow.

MAJOR HELP GUYS! THANKS!!!

but I think i'll probably be doing the audition next year. \=
cause i'm not ready. boo!

but now, i can prepare!

good luck to anyone whose trying out this year!
btw, don't forget to tell us about your acting experience!

and thanks for all those monologues! wooot.

[SUPERSTAR]

i did acting last year.

don't make it too long or boring. 1 min?
and if you can't speak korean that well i suggest that you don't do your script in korean. even if you practice. cuz i did that and they said that i still had an accent and that i needed to work on that.

also no scripts with crying. they don't like that. they'll stop you if they think your gonna cry.

[PrototypeStacy]

also no scripts with crying. they don't like that. they'll stop you if they think your gonna cry.

No scripts with crying? Really? Why not? Doesn't that show them that you would be a good dramatic actor? Aish! I was going to do a crying scene.

Also, when you auditioned ... was it scary?